I really do wish that the email provider I use would allow specifying a "receive all mail as plain text" option, then run all rich/marked-up text through html2text before it reaches my mailbox. I get so many mails with faulty HTML that doesn't render that I no longer even bother doing the conversion myself and replying "ParseError: Content did not render. Please resend as plain text". I just delete them and move on to the next item in my inbox. Complaint #2 is Webpages that use some special font/rendering technique to convert Web/Winding glyphs to characters; I just see the glyphs and move on. Maybe I should learn Sieve and write code for a filter that does just that or, failing that, at least auto-responds with the above message when HTML is detected, possibly by content-type. https://www.w3.org/services/html2txt https://pypi.org/project/html2text/ https://linux.die.net/man/1/html2text everybody-needs-two.die.net/
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